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Title: Bird portraits
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 Hoffmann, Ralph, b. 1870
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f to the leeward side of the trees.Occasionally the Creeper, on account of its practice of beginning atthe bottom of the trunk, flies to a spot on the tree below the bandof tarred paper, which protects the shade trees from the visits of thecanker-worm moth. On reaching the band, the bird makes a circuitof the trunk, in a vain attempt to find a passage. It is betterprovided, however, than the wingless moths, and when the circuit hasbeen made, a short flight carries it over. In April, the Creeper leaves its winter quarters for the North,and joins many other species in the great spruce forests of northernNew England and Canada. Occasionally, on warm mornings beforeits departure, the male indulges in a little song, of the thinnestquality imaginable. When the pair reach their northern home, theyhunt for a crevice under some great flake of loose bark, and thereconstruct their nest. The bark of trees, therefore, furnishes theCreeper with a cradle at birth and a home for the rest of its life.
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THE BUTCHER BIRD THE BUTCHER BIRD Every one who observes the habits of birds soon notices withastonishment the regularity with which they return each summer tothe same spots to breed. This is perhaps not so strange in the caseof breeding birds; they may be so fastidious in their selection offood or of a nesting site that only a few places suit them, or thespot where they bred one year may appeal to their affection and sobe selected again. It is no less evident and more remarkable thatbirds that spend only the winter in our neighborhood often haveas well defined a home as those that spend the summer. Everyautumn, about the first of November, if one looks carefully at thetopmost twigs of the small trees that are scattered about the edgesof some marsh, the eye may finally catch, perched on the very top,the figure of a plump gray bird, with black wings and tail, about thesize of a Robin. Its tail often moves as if the bird were balancingitself. A nearer view would show that its bill was s

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